Black box from Lion Air flight that crashed off Jakarta recovered

The black box voice recorder has been recovered from a Lion Air flight that crashed in October

Investigators have said that the plane had encountered technical problems

The voice recorder found on Monday was broken into two pieces

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Months after the tragic Lion Air flight crash, that left 189 people dead on October 29, 2018, authorities in Indonesia said that they had recovered the cockpit voice recorders.

On October 29, the Lion Air Flight JT-610 was on a short flight from the Indonesian capital city to Pangkal Pinang, on the Indonesian island of Bangka Belitung.

Merely 13 minutes after takeoff from the Jakarta Airport, the flight lost contact with air traffic controllers on ground.

A major search and rescue operation launched by Indonesias National Search and Rescue Agency led to the discovery of the Boeing-737 Max 8 aircraft, that had crashed into the sea off Jakarta.

All 189 people onboard the flight, including 178 adults, 1 child, 2 babies, 2 pilots and 6 flight attendants, were killed in the crash.

A month after the tragic crash, Indonesias transport safety committee (KNKT) said in its preliminary report that the Lion Air Jet that crashed, was not in an airworthy condition on its second-to-last flight.

On Monday, Indonesian officials said that the black box cockpit voice recorder from the Lion Air jet crashed into the Java Sea in October last year, had been recovered by Indonesian Navy divers.

In a statement, Lt. Col. Agung Nugroho, a spokesman for Indonesia Navys Western Fleet, said that the divers had been using high-tech equipment to uncover the voice recorder beneath 26 feet of seabed mud.

After locating the bright orange device, it was recovered by divers and was transported to a port in Jakarta.

The National Transportation Safety Committee, which is overseeing the accident investigation has taken the recovered black box and will now examine its data.

While the aircraft broke into several pieces after hitting the water at high speed, its flight data recorder was found in the sea three days after the crash.

According to investigators, the flight data recorder had revealed that the jets airspeed indicator had malfunctioned on its last four flights.

On Monday, officials revealed that the black box voice recorder was recovered about 50m (165 feet) from where the plane's flight data recorder was found after the crash.